c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
"The president felt that it was important to send an ordinary citizen to experience the excitement of space travel as a representative for all Americans." — Christa McAuliffe
"I can't be a man. But I can embrace the head of a man, the intelligence of a man, the spirit of a man." — Linda Hunt
"In virtually every Western society in the 1960s there was a moral revolution, an abandonment of its entire traditional ethic of self-restraint." — Jonathan Sacks
"Mankind is like dogs, not gods - as long as you don't get mad they'll bite you - but stay mad and you'll never be bitten. Dogs don't respect humility and sorrow." — Jack Kerouac
"Do you want to be an actor, or do you want to be a celebrity? I made that decision when I went to Juilliard. I wanted to be an actor. So, if I get the opportunity to be an actor and do some cool, fun and interesting projects, I'm going to do that." — Anthony Mackie
"Many of our own people here in this country do not ask about computers, telephones and television sets. They ask - when will we get a road to our village." — Thabo Mbeki
"My nominee for Best Picture of the year - maybe the best picture ever, because it's essentially made up of and is an ecstatic love letter to all other movies - is Christian Marclay's endlessly enticing must-see masterpiece 'The Clock.'" — Jerry Saltz
"In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female." — Cyril Connolly
"Yeah, I like to be the maker of the art. And I like and want the money. But I don't really dig being famous." — Liz Phair
"Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake." — Matthew Prior
"But those who believe that what our people desire is big government are living in a state of delusion." — Marco Rubio
"The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away." — Ronald Reagan
"Thank you to everyone that has made me the athlete I am! God, family and friends, my competitors and supporters! You have all had a hand!" — Oscar Pistorius
"We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets - we remember only." — Henry Miller
"Calmness is the cradle of power." — J. G. Holland
"The substance of faith is a hope in the unseen." — Ron Suskind
"I planned my success. I knew it was going to happen." — Erykah Badu
"When the fabric of society is so rigid that it cannot change quickly enough, adjustments are achieved by social unrest and revolutions." — John Boyd Orr
"Yeah, it's odd when you look back at your own work. Some filmmakers don't look back at their work at all. I look at my work a lot, actually. I feel like I learned something while looking at stuff I've done in terms of what I'm going to do in the future, mistakes I've made and things at work or what have you." — Christopher Nolan
"So I applied to medical school and received a scholarship at Washington University in St. Louis. Washington University turned out to be a lucky choice. The faculty was scholarly and dedicated and accessible to students." — Daniel Nathans
"I am delighted with the strong vote I have received. My message of positive leadership, patriotism and commitment clearly was resonating with tens of thousands of ordinary Irish people." — Michael D. Higgins
"Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish." — Sam Walton
"Remaining vigilant toward this ever-present threat means constantly learning how better to protect ourselves. But primarily it reminds us that we must fight and win the war on terror, so that we do not have to fight it here in America." — Mark Kennedy
"We had common interests in the beauty of the French language. We both had a tremendous love of jazz. We shared dreams of getting married and having a family, living in the country, leading an idyllic life." — David Amram
"Innovations that are guided by smallholder farmers, adapted to local circumstances, and sustainable for the economy and environment will be necessary to ensure food security in the future." — Bill Gates
"I'm in the mood for another Moonstruck experience, for another romantic comedy." — Norman Jewison
"It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations." — Doug Coupland
"I don't think consensus-building politics is what I'm meant to be doing." — Christopher Hitchens
"Me and my friend Ioan Gruffudd are like chalk and cheese when it comes to clothes. He lives for his clothes and has an amazing wardrobe. If we're going out I'll turn up at his house and say, 'I haven't got anything to wear,' and he'll tut and sigh and then lend me something swanky." — Matthew Rhys
"The presentations and conceptions of the average man of the world are formed and dominated, not by the full and pure desire for knowledge as an end in itself, but by the struggle to adapt himself favourably to the conditions of life." — Ernst Mach
"I just want to keep doing what I'm doing and hopefully people will watch my movies." — Leonardo DiCaprio
"If your life changes, we can change the world, too." — Yoko Ono
"There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion." — Francis Bacon
"It is so often true that whether a person carries with him an atmosphere of gloom and depression or one of confidence and courage depends on his individual outlook." — James Keller
"Your God is ever beside you - indeed, He is even within you." — Alphonsus Liguori
"Red Letter Christians believe in the doctrines of the Apostle's Creed, are convinced that the Scriptures have been inspired by the Holy Spirit, and make having a personal transforming relationship with the resurrected Christ the touchtone of their faith." — Tony Campolo
"I take a lot from everywhere. I take from music, architecture, novels, and plays. Anywhere that hits you." — Alex Winter
"There would be nights when I would wake up and couldn't get back to sleep. So I would go downstairs and write. The staff had a pool going on how many pages of typing I would bring in here in the morning." — Harold H. Greene
"At a time of such hope and optimism in the Middle East, we cannot let the Libyan government violate every principle of international law and human rights with impunity." — William Hague
"We intend to keep the lines of communication open with the Defense Department so we can help our border law enforcement agencies navigate the equipment application process." — Henry Cuellar
"The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them." — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name." — Ambrose Bierce
"If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one convicted of heresy." — Thomas Aquinas
"I don't have perfect teeth, I'm not stick thin. I want to be the person who feels great in her body and can say that she loves it and doesn't want to change anything." — Emma Watson
"The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren't in a very good mood." — Lou Holtz
"If we have a great idea, we'll go, 'Oh, this could be a cool movie.' Or really for us, it's more like, 'Oh, this is a really bad idea. Let's do this. This seems really stupid.'" — Trey Parker
"I would suggest that teachers show their students concrete examples of the negative effects of the actions that gangsta rappers glorify." — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
"Having money is rather like being a blond. It is more fun but not vital." — Mary Quant
"We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed." — Doris Lessing
"I fear the boredom that comes with not learning and not taking chances." — Robert Fulghum
"Without my dad, I wouldn't be here." — Maria Sharapova
"Law is always better than war." — Brian Eno
"Don't think your dreams don't come true, because they do. You'd better be careful what you wish for. And I truly and honestly - one day I am doing the 'Beaver' show and I said, 'This is the show I have always wanted to do.'" — Barbara Billingsley
"In any case, his judgment and set of values, acting alone or through his assistants, determine not only what is gold and what is dross but the design of the history which he creates out of the metal. The historian decides what is significant, and what is not." — Samuel E. Morison
"They put me on the shift where they thought I could do the least harm, midnight to eight in the morning. Although the hours were lousy, they were perfect for an apprentice reporter." — Andrea Mitchell
"Family involvement is a valuable thing and playing together actively can be the '90s version of it. Instead of just watching, you can do it together... something we don't spend enough time on. We can motivate and excite each other about fitness." — Alan Thicke
"Dreams are illusions, and we can't let go of them because we would be dead." — David Copperfield
"Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress." — Bruce Barton
"Women hear rhythm differently than men." — Elvis Costello
"We've got a long career ahead of us and it's going to be great. Trust me." — Dan Hawkins
"There is a pride, a self-love, in human minds that will seldom be kept so low as to make men and women humbler than they ought to be." — Samuel Richardson
"All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions." — Bodhidharma
"Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory even more are false, and most are uncertain." — Karl Von Clausewitz
"I recently spent quite a bit of time in Sheffield, England, which is where I'm from. I wouldn't move back there, but it's funny when you spend a bit of time in the place where you were brought up. You kind of realize how that place has had quite a big effect on you or made you a certain way." — Jarvis Cocker
"There's a certain amount of freedom involved in cycling: you're self-propelled and decide exactly where to go. If you see something that catches your eye to the left, you can veer off there, which isn't so easy in a car, and you can't cover as much ground walking." — David Byrne
"Democracy is stronger than terrorism, and we will not cower to the terrorists' campaign of fear." — John Doolittle
"Robert Kennedy was such an inspiring figure. His interest in politics seemed to come not from a desire for power, but from a need to help our society live up to its ideals." — Elisabeth Shue
"One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything." — Malcolm Muggeridge
"To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless." — Gilbert K. Chesterton
"You have to first be a writer and somebody who loves to write. If I couldn't travel, I would still write." — Tim Cahill
"The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little." — Max Lerner
"Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive." — Elbert Hubbard
"Whether it's viewers of the show or readers of my columns and books, I'm consistently impressed with their wit, humor and insight. That goes for about 95 percent of the audience. The other five percent are why the 'Delete' option and restraining orders were invented." — Richard Roeper
"Reading a hard copy book, and reading a book on an iPad are slightly different experiences. What they both have in common though is that you must engage your imagination in the process." — LeVar Burton
"I think in most jobs, you get better as you get older. You gain experience, you gain knowledge." — Kristin Scott Thomas
"A lyric, it is true, is the expression of personal emotion, but then so is all poetry, and to suppose that there are several kinds of poetry, differing from each other in essence, is to be deceived by wholly artificial divisions which have no real being." — John Drinkwater
"I really think we should pass a law in every state, I don't care whether it takes the independence away from an old person or not. You shouldn't be driving a car if you're over the age of 80. Maybe even less than that." — Evel Knievel
"We'll sort of get over the marriage first and then maybe look at the kids. But obviously we want a family so we'll have to start thinking about that." — Prince William
"Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is a time to honor the greatest champion of racial equality who taught a nation - through compassion and courage - about democracy, nonviolence and racial justice." — Mark Pryor
"A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay." — Amos Bronson Alcott
"It has been a privilege to pursue knowledge for its own sake and to see how it might help mankind in more practical ways." — Paul Nurse
"Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened." — Billy Graham
"Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them." — Epictetus
"Virginia is the absolute leader in homeland security and defense and information technology." — Mark Warner
"Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books - especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day." — John Wooden
"A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both." — Dwight D. Eisenhower
"I am kind of a private person, so I don't miss that part of show business at all. Looking back on my career in television and making a movie like 'The Sound of Music' from an adult point of view, it actually seems kind of unreal. I was involved in shows that people grew up with - that hold memories for them - and it's a cool feeling." — Angela Cartwright
"If you travel to the States... they have a lot of different words than like what we use. For instance: they say 'elevator', we say 'lift' they say 'drapes', we say 'curtains' they say 'president', we say 'seriously deranged git.'" — Alexei Sayle
"Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don't have time for all that." — George Carlin
"First, take the government of the Indians out of politics second, let the laws of the Indians be the same as those of the whites third, give the Indian the ballot." — George Crook
"He hits the ball a long way and he knows how to win." — Gary McCord
"Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!" — Albert Einstein
"Everything happens for a reason. I'm used to it, I prepare for it. Like I say, at the end of the day, those in charge of their own destiny are going to do what's right for them and their family." — Shaquille O'Neal
"Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of the definition of a marriage as between one man and one woman." — Randy Neugebauer
"That's why for Zakk Wylde's Black Label Society the colors are black and white. There are no gray issues. Life is black and it's white. There's no in-between." — Zakk Wylde
"We're in a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyone's arguing over where they're going to sit." — David Suzuki
"I've had a lot of experience in independent film, and about how to choose. You've got to be very discerning about where you put your five bucks, and where you cut and what you don't cut." — Ethan Hawke
"I sent American troops to Iraq to make its people free, not to make them American. Iraqis will write their own history and find their own way." — George W. Bush
"The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it." — George Santayana
"If we do not get No Child Left Behind right for Limited English Proficient students, the law will be a failure for most schools in the 15th Congressional District, and for many across the nation." — Ruben Hinojosa
"Everything about my politics has been about the future." — David Miliband
"Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life." — Jean Paul
"I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when nobody calls." — Henry David Thoreau
"Hobbies of any kind are boring except to people who have the same hobby. This is also true of religion, although you will not find me saying so in print." — Dave Barry
"Rogue internet pharmacies continue to pose a serious threat to the health and safety of Americans. Simply put, a few unethical physicians and pharmacists have become drug suppliers to a nation." — Dianne Feinstein
"The cliche is dead poetry." — Gerald Brenan
"Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high school. When he starts playing jazz it's like going on to college, to a school of higher learning." — B. B. King
"Nobody had ever told me junk food was bad for me. Four years of medical school, and four years of internship and residency, and I never thought anything was wrong with eating sweet rolls and doughnuts, and potatoes, and bread, and sweets." — Robert Atkins
"Bluegrass has brought more people together and made more friends than any music in the world. You meet people at festivals and renew acquaintances year after year." — Bill Monroe
"Character is the ability to carry out a good resolution long after the excitement of the moment has passed." — Cavett Robert
"As much as we all talk about the future and how so many things are merging, there is a simplicity that is crucial." — Ryan Seacrest
"I finally faced the fact that it isn't a crime not having friends. Being alone means you have fewer problems." — Whitney Houston
"I've always written. When I was in school, the only teacher who ever liked me was my creative writing teacher. I used to enter poetry competitions, and I don't think I ever lost one. So I had the idea for a while of being some kind of poet." — Justin Townes Earle
"The way to preserve the peace of the church is to preserve its purity." — Matthew Henry
"I travel all the time, and I have two small children." — Hope Davis
"I have to keep up with the scientific literature as part of my job, but increasingly I found myself reading things that weren't really relevant to my academic work, but were relevant to gardening." — Ken Thompson
"Second, there are two problems with respect to mobile homes in particular. One is we obviously don't want to put them in a flood plain, because if there's another flood, you're going to lose the mobile home." — Michael Chertoff
"I hate how box-office failures are blamed on an actress, yet I don't see a box-office failure blamed on men." — Ellen Page
"What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them." — Henry Ford
"Money is not a motivating factor. Money doesn't thrill me or make me play better because there are benefits to being wealthy. I'm just happy with a ball at my feet. My motivation comes from playing the game I love. If I wasn't paid to be a professional footballer I would willingly play for nothing." — Lionel Messi
"One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons." — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
"It's obvious, but perhaps worth saying, that happiness has virtually nothing to do with the state of your intellect." — Daniel Keys Moran
"But nobody is listening to those points. They are just listening to the gossip which is saying that I knew I was positive for all these years because I had a faked test a few years ago." — Marc Wallice
"People in government and public life are being kicked around at a high rate of speed." — Arlen Specter
"By the work one knows the workman." — Jean de La Fontaine
"It's no good being nice and young and naive. There's no good in that at all. You've got to do it all yourself, and you've gotta learn quick. And you can't look for sympathy either." — Johnny Rotten
"When you start falling for somebody and you can't stop thinking about when you're going to see them again, I love that. Women are beautiful. They deserve to be cherished and respected." — Orlando Bloom
"Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid." — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Once the fabric of a just society is undone, it takes generations to weave it back together." — Deepak Chopra
"Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality." — Jonas Salk
"Trust is not the same as faith. A friend is someone you trust. Putting faith in anyone is a mistake." — Christopher Hitchens
"A government is invigorated when each of us is willing to participate in shaping the future of this nation." — Barbara Jordan
"Look, we know we screwed up when we were in the majority. We fell in love with power. We spent way too much money - especially on earmarks. There was too much corruption when we ran this place. We were guilty. And that's why we lost." — Eric Cantor
"My philosophy is that the most important aspect of any religion should be human kindness. And to try to ease the suffering of others. To try to bring light and love into the lives of mankind." — Steven Seagal
"Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts." — Arnold Bennett
"When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself." — Tecumseh
"Even as a kid, I never liked breakfast. I just don't like to eat then. I like to get up and work. I think sticking a whole bunch of carbohydrates in your stomach in the morning is probably the worst way to begin the day." — Candace Bushnell
"A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down." — Arnold H. Glasow
"It's not an act. I love it. It's totally original. People go, 'What's going on with this guy? Why does he sound so weird? What is going on in his brain. I don't know. Just one day I suddenly woke up with a new brain." — Charlie Sheen
"A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth." — Charles Darwin
"Life's a fight. It's a good fight of faith." — Joel Osteen
"I think the importance of doing activist work is precisely because it allows you to give back and to consider yourself not as a single individual who may have achieved whatever but to be a part of an ongoing historical movement." — Angela Davis
"I always thought it would be really cool to be playing the drums in the show and then have your astral body or whatever travel all through the audience and dig whatever it's like out there." — Bill Kreutzmann
"No partner in a love relationship... should feel that he has to give up an essential part of himself to make it viable." — May Sarton
"The fear for a network is the viewer gets tired of you. Not that you lost any credibility, but they get tired of you." — Terry Bradshaw
"The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be." — Paul Valery
"I hated the idea of a high school sweetheart. Growing up, oh my God, it just made me sick. I wanted to have a range of cool boyfriends. I wanted to travel around and date these interesting men. Then it just happened. You fall in love." — Charlotte Arnold
"Try to put your happiness before anyone else's, because you may never have done so in your entire life, if you really think about it, if you are really honest with yourself." — Margaret Cho
"Defy your own group. Rebel against yourself." — Cathy Guisewite
"The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer." — Marcus Aurelius
"Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument. The memories which lie within us are not carved in stone not only do they tend to become erased as the years go by, but often they change, or even increase by incorporating extraneous features." — Primo Levi
"I'd done table reads for my own screenplays, and I always thought they were so much fun. Why couldn't we do these for other classic screenplays and bring them to life? You can experience live theater, where you get to see plays produced by different directors and different casts, but there's really nothing like that for movie scripts." — Jason Reitman
"You want to do your job well so that people in the future say, 'OK, he's not bad, let's hire him.'" — Javier Bardem
"My biggest role as director on the film is keeping a sense of the overview - how to cast the movie and shoot it in such a way that it will cut together. And how to design the style and tone." — Jay Roach
"Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Most women's pictures are as boring and as formulaic as men's pictures. In place of a car chase or a battle scene, what you get is an extreme closeup of a woman breaking down." — Frances McDormand
"I was into all kinds of music as a teen - country music, because my dad was in a band that played country, and whatever my sister and brother were into." — Martina McBride
"I am dumb when it comes to learning dance steps." — Mia Kirshner
"Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death." — Edna Ferber
"The thing about stand-up was, I was doing all this sketch and YouTube stuff where I was not being censored and I got to do my own thing, and it was really cool." — Donald Glover
"A good education is another name for happiness." — Ann Plato
"The more control you have over your life, the more responsible you feel for your own success - or failure." — Arthur C. Brooks
"Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems." — Elie Wiesel
"The guy who knows about computers is the last person you want to have creating documentation for people who don't understand computers." — Adam Osborne
"I've had an exciting time I married for love and got a little money along with it." — Rose Kennedy
"Google is a global Rorschach test. We see in it what we want to see. Google has built an infrastructure that makes a lot of dreams closer to reality." — John Battelle
"I must govern the clock, not be governed by it." — Golda Meir
"If we become too scared to confront the chief problems of our time, there is no hope of ever solving them." — Jim DeMint
"I know that I've got big ears and a big forehead and that my hair sticks up. But I'm happy with myself. I'm not necessarily trying to win a beauty pageant here." — Clay Aiken
"I hate it when people call me a teen queen." — Lindsay Lohan
"Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul." — Douglas MacArthur
"You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn't mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority." — Eleanor Roosevelt
"I never thought I'd make the pages of 'Sports Illustrated,' because I've always been skinny." — Carolyn Murphy
"Jon Stewart hires people that he thinks are funny. That's it. That's the only requirement." — Olivia Munn
"Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny." — Bob Marley
"Most of us start out with a positive attitude and a plan to do our best." — Marilu Henner
"We do not look in our great cities for our best morality." — Jane Austen
"Modern Orthodoxy has a highly positive attitude toward the State of Israel. Our Ultra-Orthodox brethren recognize only the Holy Land, but not the state." — Norman Lamm
"But it's important, while we are supporting lessons in respecting others, to remember that many of our youngest kids need to learn to respect themselves. You learn your worth from the way you are treated." — Anna Quindlen
"Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible." — Saint Augustine
"And trust, yes, which is important, but that is what I aim towards. Now that is difficult for some people, and with that desire to get things as good as possible, I would say that I'm probably regarded as quite prickly to work with." — Jeremy Irons
"Since the day he came into office, President Bush has worked to gut more than 34 years of hard work by weakening many of our Nation's standing environmental laws, some of which were signed into law by his father." — Jim Jeffords
"Inspiration is one thing and you can't control it, but hard work is what keeps the ship moving. Good luck means, work hard. Keep up the good work." — Kevin Eubanks
"That is why if Lebanon concludes a peace agreement with Israel and brings that accord to the Parliament our deputies will reject it Hezbollah refuses any conciliation with Israel in principle." — Hassan Nasrallah
"There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child." — Erma Bombeck
"I want to write a book which is the history of comedy." — John Cleese
"The thing about Hemingway that people forget is that all the stuff he did was at a time where people weren't traveling that much. At 19 he travels to Italy. He goes to the Spanish Civil War. He goes to China, he goes to Africa so at that time to travel that much is really incredible." — Clive Owen
"Mmmm... the comedy that matters is the comedy you pull out of thin air. It's a bit like when something funny has happened and you try to explain it to someone else and end up saying, 'You had to be there.'" — Jack Dee
"When I moved to New York, I fell head over heels back into country music and probably 'cause I missed something about Texas." — Norah Jones
"No one who has lived even for a fleeting moment for something other than life in its conventional sense and has experienced the exaltation that this feeling produces can then renounce his new freedom so easily." — Andre Breton
"Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work." — Carl Sandburg
"I'm possibly a very morbid person but I think about death a lot." — Daniel Radcliffe
"For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied." — Susan Sontag
"Gossip is easy, politics is hard." — Tabitha Soren
"I wake up every morning happy for where I am in life. It's not all about the cooking, but the fact that I can contribute by using my influence to help people all over the country. In the last two years, my partners and I have fed more than 10 million hungry people by bringing meat to food banks." — Paula Deen
"A simple compliment goes a really long way - for a guy to just come over and say, 'You have great hair' or 'I really like your dress,' and then just smile and walk away. That's a great move, because he's sort of putting himself out there by doing that, but it won't lead to any embarrassment if the girl isn't interested." — Stacy Keibler
"Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison." — Georges Bataille
"I'm not an Adonis, that's for damn sure. I've never really thought of myself that way, and it doesn't matter to me. My favorite actors aren't Adonises. Dustin Hoffman is a flawed-looking man he's amazing to me. Tom Hanks is flawed-looking people love him. Same with Gene Hackman." — Shia LaBeouf
"I come from a profession which has suffered greatly because of the lack of civility. Lawyers treat each other poorly and it has come home to haunt them. The public will not tolerate a lack of civility." — James E. Rogers
"Has Bill Clinton inspired idealism in the young, as he himself was inspired by John F. Kennedy? Or has he actually reduced their idealism? Surely part of the answer lies in Clinton's personal moral lapse with Monica Lewinsky. But more important was his sin of omission - his failure to embrace a moral cause beyond popularity." — Arlie Russell Hochschild
"Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops." — Cary Grant
"The Jews' greatest contribution to history is dissatisfaction! We're a nation born to be discontented. Whatever exists we believe can be changed for the better." — Shimon Peres
"Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life." — Thomas Merton
"Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye That's all we shall know for truth Before we grow old and die." — William Butler Yeats
"I don't need anyone to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we will ever have is the one with ourselves." — Shirley MacLaine
"The days you work are the best days." — Georgia O'Keeffe
"The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and not causes. Nothing more than the patching up of those attacked and the burying of those who are slain, without a thought being given to the real strong hold." — Edward Bach
"Your car should drive itself. It's amazing to me that we let humans drive cars... It's a bug that cars were invented before computers." — Eric Schmidt
"Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake." — Quintilian
"In 1977 we played America and Europe three times, and Japan - my marriage suffered as a result. My then wife took the kids to Canada to be near her parents." — Phil Collins
"The slave may be happy, but happiness is not enough." — Herbert Read
"A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circlue of our felicities." — Thomas Jefferson
"Similarly, thought is a system. That system not only includes thought and feelings, but it includes the state of the body it includes the whole of society - as thought is passing back and forth between people in a process by which thought evolved from ancient times." — David Bohm
"I believe that the will of the people is resolved by a strong leadership. Even in a democratic society, events depend on a strong leadership with a strong power of persuasion, and not on the opinion of the masses." — Yitzhak Shamir
"Who can I trust? You have to invest in somebody and chances are you're probably going to invest in somebody who's going to deceive you. I've been conned a couple of times, but now I'm a little more savvy." — Maggie Gyllenhaal
"We can only move to a long-term resolution regarding terrorism and war by planting seeds of peace. We have to start with ourselves." — Peter Yarrow
"The second album was emotionally exhausting and my life felt like it had become very serious at a very young age." — Delta Goodrem
"I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians." — Francis Ford Coppola
"You can get rich or famous by doing the same thing." — Ang Lee
"The Republican argument that raising the debt ceiling encourages additional future spending is logically irresponsible. The debt ceiling has to be raised to authorize spending already approved by Congress. Despite that fallacy, the GOP has been able to score political points with its argument." — Eliot Spitzer
"You think that religion is a thing that is there to help you and to see you through life, and then you wake up one morning and find the entire Irish situation, the civil war that's based on religion." — Midge Ure
"When you look at golf films before us they're all - garbage or satire. A lot of sports films tend to vilify the opposition. Where the opposition becomes this big angry monster, so big you can't beat him." — Shia LaBeouf
"This is a historic moment in global public health, demonstrating the international will to tackle a threat to health head on." — Gro Harlem Brundtland
"The March on Washington affirmed our values as a people: equality and opportunity for all. Forty-one years ago, during a time of segregation, these were an ideal." — Leonard Boswell
"Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature." — Eric Hoffer
"I don't know nothing about no marriages or nothing. I ain't even never been to a wedding." — Mike Epps
"The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter." — Alice Meynell
"I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good." — Martin Luther King, Jr.
"When I was in Philadelphia during the Depression in 1930 or '31, I got a very sad job as a night watchman in a garage. The cars in the garage had been abandoned by their owners, since they had lost their jobs and couldn't keep up the payments." — Tom Glazer
"I think the Democrats are catering to them, but, you know, in the entire history of the United States of America, there has never been a judge who has been refused a vote when there was a majority of Senators willing to vote for his confirmation, never in history." — Pat Robertson
"The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom." — Stephen Gardiner
"Unlike some of the time-travel movies I love, like 'Primer' or '12 Monkeys,' 'Looper' is not about time travel. It's about this situation that time travel creates and the people dealing with that situation. So narratively, the big challenge was to have time travel get out of the way." — Rian Johnson
"For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another's happiness." — Aeschylus
"My art teacher in junior high was a very out gay man and a mentor to me. He would tell us about Greenwich Village and show us the 'Village Voice' and describe his life, but it was all sort of subversive and below the radar." — Gus Van Sant
"With one man, there was a freedom and liberation. That was with Michael Hutchence, my partner in life." — Kylie Minogue
"Jealousy is the fear of comparison." — Max Frisch
"It is just called Continuing Legal Education. You can go to lectures, you can even listen to tapes on airplanes - they want you to stay current. So you do have to stay current to maintain your license even if you are not practicing." — Frank Shorter
"Every failure is a step to success." — William Whewell
"I admit it: I had fun watching right-wingers go wild as health reform finally became law." — Paul Krugman
"To be perfectly honest, I think that as I'm growing older, I'm just growing more impatient. I'll be very happy if at some point people say, 'Michael's grown wiser and softer in his old age.' But we'll have to wait and see what my next project is." — Michael Haneke
"If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever." — George Orwell
"It's easy to see why pitchers respect McGwire. If you hit behind him, they're saying that they don't respect you. You have to change their thinking." — Eric Davis
"But really, we also need to learn how to love one another as women. How to appreciate and respect each other." — Chaka Khan
"When I was growing up, we used to play basketball in a park that was never shoveled when it snowed. The basketball rims were never fixed. And we understood then that there was a relationship between public policy and our quality of life." — DeForest Soaries
"None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free." — Pearl S. Buck
"A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success." — Elbert Hubbard
"It's a delight to trust somebody so completely." — Jeff Goldblum
"President Obama's view of a free economy is to send your money to his friends. My vision for a free enterprise economy is to return entrepreneurship and genius and creativity to the American people!" — Mitt Romney
"Some of the best health care services are free or cost very little and are even available to millionaires but hardly anyone knows they exist." — Matthew Lesko
"Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad." — A. A. Milne
"It's a positive thing to talk about terrible things and make people laugh about them." — Louis C. K.
"I'm one of those people that thinks the Internet is amazing, and I can't believe it exists." — Mayim Bialik
"Nothing can happen more beautiful than death." — Walt Whitman
"When you're shooting a film, you really don't get to be a dad, and you don't really get to be a husband. You don't really exist at all. But I do drag my family with me on location whenever I can." — Eric Bana
"Let us now set forth one of the fundamental truths about marriage: the wife is in charge." — Bill Cosby
"Know the names of past and current artists who are most famous for playing their instruments." — Marilyn vos Savant
"Of the 55 refineries closed in America in the last 10 years, they were all closed for economic reasons, mostly oil company mergers. Not a single one was closed for environmental purposes or objections." — Peter DeFazio
"Some go on to trade schools or get further training for jobs they are interested in. Some go into the arts, some are craftsmen, some take a little time out to travel, and some start their own businesses. But our graduates find and work at what they want to do." — Daniel Greenberg
"I've always wanted to be the best in the world as a baseball player, so when I started to think about opening a business, it was with that mindset." — Curt Schilling
"The beginning of a friendship, the fact that two people out of the thousands around them can meet and connect and become friends, seems like a kind of magic to me. But maintaining a friendship requires work. I don't mean that as a bad thing. Good art requires work as well." — Charles de Lint
"If one were to bring ten of the wisest men in the world together and ask them what was the most stupid thing in existence, they would not be able to discover anything so stupid as astrology." — David Hilbert
"I am very proud of this work because it is more about the meaning of the Easter Rising and its relationship to what this whole century has been about, people liberating themselves, freeing themselves." — Leon Uris
"I am a sportsman and not a politician. I am a sportsman and will always remain one. I am not going to enter politics giving up cricket, which is my life. I will continue to play cricket." — Sachin Tendulkar
"Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me." — Jim Rohn
"The wisdom of crowds works when the crowd is choosing the price of an ox, when there's a single numeric average. But if it's a design or something that matters, the decision is made by committee, and that's crap. You want people and groups who are able to think thoughts before they share." — Jaron Lanier
"I had cars, houses, jewels, furs, and a husband who loved me, and a career I was happy with. But I found fulfillment in my relationship with Christ." — Gloria Gaynor
"Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics." — Wendell Phillips
"Older women are like aging strudels - the crust may not be so lovely, but the filling has come at last into its own." — Robert Farrar Capon
"I just sing the stuff that makes me smile, makes me feel like I didn't sell myself out." — Patti LaBelle
"The best activities for your health are pumping and humping." — Arnold Schwarzenegger
"Here comes 40. I'm feeling my age and I've ordered the Ferrari. I'm going to get the whole mid-life crisis package." — Keanu Reeves
"Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature." — Aeschylus
"It ain't often that a man's reputation outlasts his money." — Josh Billings
"Some people never contribute anything positive to society, they may even drain our resources, but most of us try to do something better, to give back." — Martin Yan
"The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects." — Charles de Gaulle
"Over the past 20 years, I have noticed that the most flexible, dynamic, inquisitive minds among my students have been industrial design majors. Industrial designers are bracingly free of ideology and cant. The industrial designer is trained to be a clear-eyed observer of the commercial world - which, like it or not, is modern reality." — Camille Paglia
"So, when it comes to eating healthy, it's just doing the right thing. And it's not something you have to do 365 days a year, but I think it's something you have to do 25 days a month. Let's put it that way." — Mike Ditka
"That neither our thoughts, nor passions, nor ideas formed by the imagination, exist without the mind, is what every body will allow." — George Berkeley
"My style icons would be people like Brigitte Bardot and old Hollywood actresses who always look so stunning, cool and chic. I like classic and timeless looks." — Jessica Brown Findlay
"An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work." — Gertrude Stein
"From dear, dear Gloria Swanson, I learned how to live long, happy and free of health problems. I owe her my life." — Dirk Benedict
"There's intense national feeling in America that could be called patriotism." — Michael Ignatieff
"And out of darkness came the hands that reach thro' nature, moulding men." — Alfred Lord Tennyson
"I guess you could say I've been in my share of violent movies." — Daniel Craig
"The only way of living in a free society is to feel that you have the right to say and do stuff." — Salman Rushdie
"I like American women. They do things sexually Russian girls never dream of doing - like showering." — Yakov Smirnoff
"Civilized countries generally adopt gold or silver or both as money." — Alfred Marshall
"I think everything Joni Mitchell did for music was big." — Maynard James Keenan
"For my birthday this year, my girlfriends - who knew I'd just inherited my dad's turntable - gave me a carton of albums like 'Blue Kentucky Girl,' by Emmylou Harris, and 'Off the Wall,' by Michael Jackson. It's all stuff we grew up with. I mean, you can't have a music collection without Prince's 'Purple Rain' - it just can't be done!" — Connie Britton
"The way I look at it, everything is a trade. You acquire some money, so then you've got no financial burdens, but everyone wants your money and so who can you trust? Or you've got no money and you can trust anyone, but then you've got the worry to pay bills. Which is worse?" — Matt LeBlanc
"Just about this time, when in imagination I was so great a warrior, I had good use in real life for more strength, as I was no longer taken to school by the nurse, but instead had myself to protect my brother, two years my junior." — Georg Brandes
"By the time I was 30, nobody would work with me. I was friendless, I was hopeless, I was suicidal, lost my family - I mean, it was bad. Bottomed out, didn't know what I was going to do. I actually thought I was going to be a chef - go to work in a kitchen someplace." — Glenn Beck
"I mean, you have a general tone of it but it's pretty much you get to come in and you're going to flip this car and it's going to blow up and you're going to come out on fire and you go oh, that's cool, and then you get paid a lot of money." — David R. Ellis
"The fact that food plays such an important part in my films has everything to do with my family." — Martin Scorsese
"There is a real patriotism underneath the best of my music but it is a critical, questioning and often angry patriotism." — Bruce Springsteen
"I have always been aware that you have to get people listening before you can change their minds. Any artist's big fear is being ignored, so if you get debate, that's great." — Damien Hirst
"It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous." — Jean-Paul Sartre
"I have a lot of younger fans, obviously the choices I make often influence them. But having said that, it's kind of the best motivation in the world to stay positive and make good choices." — James Maslow
"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein